Paul von Ragué Schleyer

Paul of Ragué Schleyer ( born February 27, 1930 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American chemist and professor of Organic and Physical Chemistry.

Life and work

He graduated as valedictorian at the Cleveland West Technical High School in 1947. 1951 Schleyer received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University magna cum laude. He received his doctorate in 1957 from Harvard University, where he worked in the laboratory of Paul Doughty Bartlett ( 1907-1997 ).

According to a survey carried out in 1997, Schleyer, who has since published well over 1260 scientific articles, the third most frequently quoted chemist in the world.

He was Higgins Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, is an emeritus professor and co - director of the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the University of Erlangen and is currently Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.

Since 1984 he is a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

He has published twelve books in the field of lithium chemistry, quantum chemical ab initio molecular orbital theory and carbonium ions. He is a former President of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and editor of the Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry.

Publications

Some of his twelve monographs have been published in collaboration with Nobel Prize winners such as John Anthony Pople, Herbert Charles Brown and George Andrew Olah. His research activities were in the field of synthesis of adamantane and other cage compounds. He also discovered new types of hydrogen bonding and identified mechanisms of solvolysis and their reactive intermediates.

As a pioneer in the field of computational chemistry, he identified a number of new molecular structures, especially those of lithium - chemistry and electron-deficient compounds. His current research topic is, inter alia, the aromaticity and the Hyper coordination of carbon.

Honors

Schleyer received numerous honors and awards, including an honorary doctorate from the University of Lyon, the University of Munich, the University of Kiev and in 2011 the University of Marburg, Adolf von Baeyer Medal, the James Flack Norris Award in Physical Chemistry, the Heisenberg medal and the Federal Cross of Merit.